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Financial Services Guide Effective Date: 01.08.2015
Contents
About this document 3
Financial services and products
we are authorised to provide 4
Who does NAB act for when
providing financial services? 5
What relationships do we have
with product issuers? 6
Arrangements with external service
providers 6
How can a NAB staff member assist you? 7
Instructing us 7
Payment for the services we provide 7
Insurance products 8
Personal financial product advice 9
Other unrelated entities 9
Remuneration or other benefits received
by NAB staff members 9
Referral fees 10
Privacy 11
Compensation Arrangements 11
Lodging a complaint 11
Help us to help you 12
How long will it take? 12
Going a step further 12
Need more options? 13
About this document
This Financial Services Guide (‘FSG’) is an important
document that is provided by National Australia Bank
Limited ABN 12 004 044 937 (‘NAB’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’).
Our contact details are set out on the last page of this
FSG. This FSG sets out the range of financial services
and the types of financial products that we are
authorised to provide under our Australian Financial
Services Licence No. 230686 (AFSL). Except as stated
below, it relates to the financial services we provide
to retail customers and contains information to help
you decide whether to use these financial services.
It includes information about:
• how we and our associates are remunerated
in relation to the services offered;
• any relationships or associations we may have
with product issuers; and
• our internal and external complaints handling
procedures and how these are available to you.
This FSG does not relate to financial services provided by
our financial planning businesses or UBank which have
their own FSG. It also does not relate to any services or
products we provide that are not financial services or
financial products (for example loan products other than
margin loans).
We will generally provide you with a Product Disclosure
Statement (PDS) or other disclosure document (such as
terms and conditions) in relation to a financial product
if we give you personal financial product advice about
the product or if we offer or arrange to issue a financial
product to you. Personal financial product advice
includes advice that takes into account one or more of
your objectives, financial situation and needs. In certain
circumstances we are not required to provide a PDS
(including, for example, where you already have one).
The PDS contains information about the financial product
and will assist you in making an informed decision about
the product.
If you are provided with personal financial product advice
we may also issue you with a Statement of Advice (SoA).
The SoA will contain:
• the advice;
• the basis on which it is given;
• information relating to fees, commissions and other
benefits and any relationships, associations or
interests that may influence the advice you receive.
We are not required to issue you with a SoA nor give
you a product disclosure statement in relation to basic
deposit products and certain non-cash payment products
and travellers cheques provided we disclose certain
information about the product and, in respect of personal
financial product advice, remuneration and other benefits
or interests which may influence the advice.
If we provide you with further advice, you may request
a record of the advice, at that time or by contacting us
on 13 22 65 up to 7 years after the day of providing
the advice.
Financial services and products we are authorised
to provide
NAB is authorised under its AFSL to provide the following
financial services:
• financial product advice (both general and personal);
and
• dealing in financial products on behalf of others.
These services may be provided with a range of financial
products including:
• basic deposit products;
• other deposit products; and
• non-cash payment products;
• derivatives;
• foreign exchange contracts;
• general insurance products;
• government debentures, stocks or bonds;
• life insurance products (investment life and life risk);
• managed investment schemes including investor
directed portfolio services (IDPS);
• retirement savings accounts;
• securities;
• superannuation;
• standard margin lending facilities;
• Australian carbon credit units; and
• eligible international emission units.
NAB is authorised to issue financial products in the
above range (excluding government debentures,
stocks or bonds, general insurance, life products and
superannuation) and to underwrite interests in managed
investment schemes and issues of securities.
NAB is a non-broker participant in the Australian Stock
Exchange Limited, and is also authorised to make a
market in foreign exchange contracts, derivatives,
debentures, government bonds or stocks and other
financial products.
It may also operate custodial or depository services
(not IDPS).
Who does NAB act for when providing financial
services?
NAB is responsible for the financial services it provides
to you under its AFSL.
NAB may act as a distributor or agent on behalf of
other product issuers, including issuers of travellers’
cheques, securities, managed investment schemes
and superannuation products, and general insurance
companies and life insurance companies through
distribution or agency arrangements. See below for
further details of those relationships.
What relationships do we have with product
issuers?
Many of the products offered by NAB are issued by us
and companies related to us. Related companies in the
National Group that are product issuers (in addition to
NAB) include:
• National Australia Trustees Limited;
• National Asset Management Limited;
• MLC Limited;
• MLC Investments Limited;
• MLC Nominees Pty Limited;
• PFS Nominees Pty Limited; and
• WealthHub Securities Limited
NAB acts on behalf of other product issuers when it sells
the following products:
• life and general insurance
• investment and superannuation products
• travellers’ cheques
If you need to know the name of the issuer of a product
that NAB offers you, and therefore who NAB acts for
when it offers you that product, please refer to the
Product Disclosure Statement, Statement of Advice or
any other disclosure document you receive or ask your
adviser.
Any additional relationships which we have for the
purposes of our financial planning business or UBank will
be disclosed in the FSG for these parts of our business.
Arrangements with external service providers
NAB may from time to time engage a third party to
provide financial services on its behalf. Where a third
party does not hold its own AFSL, it will provide the
financial services as NAB’s ‘authorised representative’.
NAB may authorise a company or an individual to act as
our authorised representative for sales and marketing
activities.
How can a NAB staff member assist you?
To the extent that we authorise a NAB staff member
to do so, the staff member can help you to apply for the
financial products referred to in this FSG and can also
give you financial product advice in relation to them.
If a NAB staff member is unable to provide you with
a financial service or a financial product that you are
interested in or is in your best interests, the staff member
will refer you to another staff member who may be able
to assist you.
As an integrated financial services provider, NAB also
provides financial planning services. If you require these
services you will be referred to an appropriate person in
NAB who will provide you with a separate FSG relating to
the financial services that they may provide.
We will not give you personal financial product advice
when you visit our website or contact us on 13 22 65.
Instructing us
You can give us instructions by using the contact details
set out on the last page of this FSG. Some products and
services may have their own rules around how to provide
instructions or execute certain transactions. Please refer
to the PDS or other disclosure document for the product
for these details.
Generally, you need to give us instructions in writing (e.g.
fax, email or letter) or another method as agreed by us.
Payment for the services we provide
If you acquire a product issued by a company in the
National Australia Bank Group of companies (including
NAB), the relevant company, or any other National Australia
Bank Group company providing services in relation to the
product, may receive fees and or commissions in relation to
that product which may ultimately benefit other members
of the group and any directors or other associates of those
companies. Any commissions or other fees that the relevant
company, or any other National Australia Group company
(including NAB) receives in relation to these services will
generally be disclosed in the disclosure document for the
relevant product.
In addition, NAB may receive any applicable bank
or transaction charges. The fees you will pay for the
products we offer are set out in the PDS or other
disclosure document for the particular product.
Insurance products
NAB, or its related body corporate National Australia
Financial Management Limited (NAFM), may receive
commission or other payments from insurers or insurance
intermediaries, when NAB or NAFM are involved in the
distribution of insurance products. These insurers and
intermediaries include, but are not limited to, Allianz
Australia Insurance Ltd (Allianz), CGU Insurance Limited
(CGU), Chubb Insurance Company of Australia (Chubb),
and Aon Risk Services Australia Limited (Aon). Details of
the amounts that may be received are as follows:
Allianz: Commissions are calculated and paid monthly
ranging from 10% to 40% of Base Premium for both new
and renewed insurance. The actual percentage depends
on the type of insurance product. These percentages
may be reduced where discounts apply. Allianz also pays
marketing costs in relation to NAB Travel Insurance and
may also pay a marketing allowance based on growth
of total annual Base Premium for Home and Car Insurance
products.
Chubb: Commissions are calculated and paid monthly
ranging from 10% to 20% of Base Premium. The actual
percentage depends on the size of the total annual Base
Premium. Chubb may also pay annual marketing costs of
up to 1.5% of total annual Base Premium.
CGU: Commissions are calculated and paid monthly
and range from 7.5% to 15% of Base Premium for new
insurance and 5% to 10% for renewed insurance. The
actual percentage depends on the type of insurance
product. CGU may also pay an annual marketing
allowance of up to 1.5% of the total annual Base Premium.
Aon: Amounts are calculated and paid monthly, such
amounts being 25% of any commission and/or 10% of any
Professional fees received.
In certain circumstances NAFM or NAB may receive
additional remuneration from the relevant insurer (up to
5% of profit from Chubb, 50% of profit from Allianz and
25% of profit from CGU) based on the profitability (or a
proportion of it) of the portfolio of the insurer relating to
insurance arranged through NAFM or NAB, after allowing
for claims and other expenses. This is calculated and paid
annually.
‘Base Premium’ means the amount paid by a customer
to an insurer for an insurance product (other than NAB
Travel Insurance) excluding Stamp Duty, GST and Fire
Service Levy. For NAB Travel Insurance Base Premium
includes Stamp Duty and GST.
Personal financial product advice
If personal financial product advice is given in relation
to a financial product the amount of any commission
that may be received or the manner in which it will be
calculated will be disclosed in any SoA that is required to
be issued to you.
Information in relation to the remuneration and any other
benefits that must be disclosed in respect of our financial
planning businesses or UBank is set out in the FSG for
these businesses.
Other unrelated entities
From time to time we may provide general advice and
dealing or other services in relation to financial products
that are offered by unrelated entities. Any commissions or
other fees that we receive in relation to these services will
generally be disclosed in the disclosure document for the
relevant product.
Remuneration or other benefits received by NAB
staff members
NAB staff members are salaried employees of NAB and
in most cases do not receive any proportion of any fees
or commissions paid to NAB or any other company in the
National Group in connection with the financial services
or financial products referred to in this FSG.
Staff members may be entitled to receive additional
monetary or non-monetary benefits and/or rewards
resulting from participation in programs conducted by
NAB. Monetary benefits or rewards may include an annual
bonus, the level of which may depend on the overall
performance of the National Group of companies. Non-
monetary benefits or rewards for staff members and their
partners may include gift vouchers, film tickets, restaurant
meals, attendance at an annual conference or other
functions.
Whether staff members receive any such benefits and
rewards depends on a number of balanced performance
and behavioural factors. In some situations these may
include the level of remuneration generated for NAB
from sales of products as a consequence of the staff
member’s advice.
It is not possible to determine at any given time whether
a staff member will receive such benefits or rewards or to
quantify them. They are generally not directly attributable
to any particular product that the staff member has given
advice on.
Referral fees
If a customer is referred to us (whether by a person or
a company within or outside the NAB Group), we may
pay the referrer a fee. The fee varies according to the
customer, referrer and the financial products involved.
The fee involved will be set out in documents you may
receive in these circumstances.
We pay these fees as upfront fees when the financial
service is provided or the financial product is issued,
or periodically as ongoing fees.
Privacy
Privacy laws apply to the handling of your personal
information by us. Any personal information collected
about you will be handled in accordance with our
Privacy Policy available at www.nab.com.au/privacy.
The personal information collected will be used to
provide you with financial services and for purposes of
related activities in the provision of the services. We may
disclose your personal information to any person who is
a company within the NAB Group at any time, to service
providers who are engaged by us (for example, a call
centre, a mailing house), to a person who acts on your
behalf in relation to your investment (for example, your
financial adviser) and to other third parties where we are
required by law to disclose your information or where you
have given your consent.
There is more information about how we collect, use,
share and handle your personal information in our Privacy
Policy and our Privacy Notification, including on how you
may access or correct your information, the countries we
may send your information to and how you may make
a complaint about a privacy issue. For more details our
Privacy Policy and full Privacy Notification can be viewed
on our websites or a copy obtained by contacting us
(our contact details are provided on the back cover of
this FSG).
Compensation Arrangements
We are regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulation
Authority (APRA) and have professional indemnity
insurance arrangements in place to help provide cover
for claims that relate to the financial services we provide.
As an APRA regulated entity, we are exempt from the
compensation requirements in the Corporations Act 2001.
Lodging a complaint
We’re always trying to improve our customers’ experience,
but we know things don’t always go the way they should.
Your feedback about the services you receive from us and
our products can help us understand and address issues
we otherwise might not know about. Our brochure titled
‘All feedback is good feedback: let’s talk’ includes more
information and is available from any NAB branch.
Help us to help you
There are two ways to talk to us.
1. In person: Speak directly to us at your branch and
we’ll do our best to resolve your concern or issue.
2. Phone our call centre on 13 22 65.
By giving us as much information as possible, you’ll
be helping us to resolve things faster. If you have any
supporting documentation, please have it handy when
you raise your concern.
How long will it take?
If you raise an issue with us, we’ll address it as quickly as
possible. In fact, most complaints are resolved within one
business day. If your issue can’t be resolved straight away,
we’ll make sure we see it through. In nearly all cases, you
can expect that your concern will be resolved within five
business days. In the event that it takes us longer than
five days to resolve or investigate, we’ll ensure that you’re
regularly updated.
Going a step further
We’re here to help, so if you feel that your contact at our
branch or call centre hasn’t resolved the issue, then the
next step is to speak to our Customer Resolutions Team.
Here’s how:
1. Call our dedicated Customer Resolutions Team any
time between 8am and 7pm, Monday to Friday (AEST),
on 1800 152 015
2. Send a form online:
Complete our online feedback form at nab.com.au, send
us a secure message through your NAB Internet Banking,
or email us at feedback@nab.com.au
3. Write to us at:
National Australia Bank
General Manager, NAB Resolve
Reply Paid 2870
Melbourne Vic 8060
Need more options?
If you still feel your issue hasn’t been resolved to your
satisfaction, then you can raise your concern with NAB’s
independent external dispute resolution provider, the
Financial Ombudsman Service. Of course, as you’re a
valued customer, we’d much rather try to resolve the issue
together first. In fact, the Ombudsman will encourage
you to resolve the issue with NAB before they start to
investigate. The Financial Ombudsman Service can be
contacted at:
Telephone 1300 780 808
Fax 03 9613 6399
Website www.fos.org.au
Postal Address GPO Box 3
Melbourne Vic 3001
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9am – 6pm AEST Saturday – Sunday
or visit nab.com.au
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can contact us on 13 36 77
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